Adding Dashboard Items
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This topic describes how to add a new dashboard item to the dashboard and perform basic actions on the item.
Creating Dashboard Items
To create a dashboard item in the Dashboard Designer, click the button in the Insert group on the Home ribbon page in the default page category.
This creates an empty dashboard item and displays the data sections required to bind the item to data (the image below displays the Pivot dashboard item and its data sections).
Perform the following steps to design a dashboard item.
- Bind the dashboard item to data.
- Perform the required data shaping operations (such as grouping, sorting and filtering).
- Use the interactivity features to enable interaction between various dashboard items.
- Adjust the dashboard item’s position and size and specify the dashboard item caption settings.
- Specify specific dashboard item settings based on its type. To learn more, see Designing Dashboard Items.
After you have created and designed the dashboard item, you can create an exact copy. To do this, click the Duplicate button in the Item group on the Home ribbon tab…
… or use the dashboard item’s context menu. To remove the dashboard item from the dashboard, use the Delete button or the corresponding item in the context menu.
To create a dashboard item in code, create an instance of the corresponding DashboardItem descendant (e.g., ChartDashboardItem, GridDashboardItem, PieDashboardItem) and add it to the Dashboard.Items collection.
Examples
How to: Bind a Chart Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Scatter Chart Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Grid Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Pie Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Card Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Gauge Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Pivot Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Choropleth Map Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Geo Point Map Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Bubble Map Dashboard Item to Data and Customize its Palette
How to: Bind a Pie Map Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Range Filter Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Bind a Treemap Dashboard Item to Data in Code
How to: Combine Filter Elements to a Group and Bind Them to Data
How to Create and Modify Dashboard Items and Tab Pages
How to: Bind a Date Filter Dashboard Item to Data in Code